![]() ![]() There is, however, considerable documentation and academic discovery of the Third Dynasty of Ur in 2000 BC when Abraham’s family moved from the city-state of Ur to Haran in northern Mesopotamia. Little had been written about the historical Abraham as there are no extant historical documents to substantiate Abraham’s life. Most books and articles expound on the biblical Abraham found in the Hebrew Scriptures and the Qur’an. The essence of this book is to give the reader a fuller understanding of the world in which the patriarch Abraham lived when he received the word of God two thousand years before the greatest event in the history of mankind – the incarnation. The book uses quotes from 100's of historians, scholars and educators throughout the world-most of which head how and why scripture came into our world 3,000 years ago. With the NT, the book uses a Post-Modern viewpoint which I'm sure will cause more howls from evangelicals. With Hebrew scriptures the book uses a 'minimalist' approach to Jewish history rather than scriptural. Also, this book is done in a 'question/answer' layout and is more aimed at the layperson rather than the scholar-although it still annotates as much as possible. My reasons is religion is thousands of years old and there is no one argument for the myriad of personalities that wrote out these scriptures. Unlike most books on the history of religions "Narrating." doesn't have just one argument, rather 100's. In the origin of the historical narrative one can find the traces of Indo-European mythology and Scandinavian cultural influence."Ī work nearly completed, the main thrust of this book is how pagan early religions, Judaism and later Christianity collided in the 4th century to form what we know as the Bible. The four disclosed rituals were converted into the historical episodes during the transition of them from oral tradition to the written narrative of the Primary Chronicle. Investigating the origins of the story of incendiary birds among the medieval mythological and literary narratives, the author supposes that it depicts a purifying ritual in the story of Princess Olga. After the long-time besiege of the Drevljan capital, Iskorosten, the city was burned with the help of incendiary pigeons and sparrows. The story of Princess Olga ended with the expedition of her army to the Drevljan country in the next year, 946. The mythological picture seems to be spread among the Rus´ and the Slavs of the ten-century Kiev. The three rituals form three stages of the princely funeral ceremony, which was determined by the idea of tripartite structure of the universe. Each of the acts is interpreted as a ritual connected with the death of the Kievan prince. First, she ordered that the embassy from the Drevljans who arrived in Kiev be buried alive then her servants set fire to the bathhouse where the Drevljan ‘best men’ washed themselves, so that they were burnt alive and finally, the princess went to the place where her husband was buried and, during a funeral banquet, ordered the massacre of thousands of Drevljans. "The Russian Primary Chronicle under 945 refers to the murder of Kievan Prince Igor by his tributary Drevljans and the revenge performed by his widow, Princess Olga. ![]()
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